Quotes About Transition

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.

All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.

We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.

when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

Were you sad to leave Cambridge?" I asked her. She was, she said. Very sad. But she was also looking forward to being back in New York. "The world is complicated," she added. "You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I realized then that for all of us part of the process of mom's dying was mourning, not just her death, but also the death of our dreams of things to come. You don't really lose the person who has been.

The truth is that people never realize their lives are about to change in unforeseen ways—that's just the nature of unforeseen ways.

Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

What's odd about commencement is that so many people think of it as the end of something, the end of high school or college--but that's not what the word means at all. It means the beginning, the start of something new.

Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.

Well, it's like this," began Mother, "When you die you go and live in another part of London. And that's it." ~ North London Book of the Dead

Like all things new, it was awkward at first, until I got accustomed to it.

Elk nieuw leven dat een mens begint is een voortzetting van het oude leven!